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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long does coupling last with two Taltos?
(a) Ten or more hours.
(b) Several days.
(c) A week or so.
(d) At least half an hour.

2. What is one thing the Taltos hated about their new home off the island?
(a) The smell of the human cities.
(b) The noise of the human cities.
(c) The fighting among the humans.
(d) The cold winters.

3. What does Mona tell Mary Jane they will have to do?
(a) Go find Rowan.
(b) Fly to California and hide there.
(c) Fly to New York City and hide there.
(d) Leave the Mayfair house.

4. Why was childbirth serious among the Taltos?
(a) It took weeks of labor.
(b) It could create an insane child.
(c) It involved pain.
(d) It was considered a sacred act.

5. What is in the envelope Mary Jane gives the doctor?
(a) Twenty dollar bills.
(b) A copy of the birth certificate for him to file.
(c) Fifty dollar bills.
(d) Instructions and a map to find his way out of the swamp.

6. What does Mona ask Morrigan at the opening to Chapter Twenty?
(a) If they should share their ice cream with Mary Jane.
(b) If Morrigan is afraid.
(c) If Morrigan is Taltos.
(d) If Morrigan wants to be born.

7. What do the humans who live near the Taltos village ask the Taltos?
(a) Why the villagers never see any funeral ceremonies.
(b) Why the villagers never see any children or babies in the village.
(c) If the Taltos are from across the ocean.
(d) If the Taltos do not need to eat.

8. What does Ash's group of Taltos do when they come to live among the humans?
(a) Invent human identities.
(b) Try to marry into the human race.
(c) Keep their appearance altered magically.
(d) Nothing different.

9. Who does Mary Jane say Morrigan is in relation to the baby Mary Jane is holding?
(a) The baby's aunt.
(b) The baby's older sister.
(c) No relation.
(d) The baby's great aunt.

10. What do Ash and other Taltos eventually realize about humans?
(a) They had much to offer.
(b) They could mate with Taltos.
(c) They hated for no reason.
(d) They would have to all be killed.

11. What makes a coupling Taltos pair end the coupling?
(a) Nothing in particular.
(b) They fall asleep for days.
(c) They hear a voice in their head.
(d) The baby is ready to be born.

12. What shocks Marklin about the body in the casket?
(a) It is not human or Taltos.
(b) It is mutilated.
(c) It is Stuart.
(d) It is Tessa.

13. What is one thing Ash worried about for his group of Taltos?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Quarrels among them.
(c) The humans would kill them.
(d) The humans would mate with them.

14. What do the Taltos do when a member of their race dies?
(a) They couple to create another Taltos.
(b) They send the body back to their home planet ot be revived.
(c) They kill a human to journey in spirit with the Taltos.
(d) They burn the body.

15. What does Mona tell the doctor they need?
(a) A birth certificate.
(b) Some painkillers.
(c) Some antibiotics.
(d) A broken bone set.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marklin find when he uses Tommy's lighter?

2. What did Lasher reveal to Michael?

3. What happened to the Taltos island?

4. Who do Stuart's notes implicate?

5. What can hasten a human woman's pregnancy with a Taltos child?

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